“When it comes to driving the extinction that everyone’s worried about it’s the continued investment in fossil fuels and the City needs to mend its ways as quickly as possible.”
Police draw batons and attack #ExtinctionRebellion protesters as they board the bus blocking the road
“It was an act of aggression in the face of non-violent civil disobedience ... it begs the question of what instructions were these officers given this morning.”
A broken window on the #ExtinctionRebellion bus after the police use force to take control.
Video provided to me by an observer appears to show police using a headlock and hammer fist strikes on an #extinctionrebellion protester aboard their bus road block at London Bridge.
As police impose a section 14 order on the area around London Bridge #ExtinctionRebellion protesters prepare to march on. Protesters remain on the bus in police custody. This woman is glued to a window.
“They were breaking windows and beating people up who were just sitting there. It’s the police committing mindless violence when they’re supposed to be protecting us.”
Carol Jones, 66, from Southport, on what she saw at #ExtinctionRebellion’s London Bridge roadblock.
The #ExtinctionRebellion protest march is now making its way west through the SE1 area, led by the samba band.
Police making damn sure that #ExtinctionRebellion don’t get on to Southwark Bridge.
#ExtinctionRebellion causing a samba road block now at the junction of Southwark street and Southwark Bridge road. I’ll leave them here to write my story.
Back in the City, where #ExtinctionRebellion are on the march again, attempting to raise awareness of rising sea levels, as their latest rebellion draws to a close.
#ExtinctionRebellion’s protesters have paused in front of the Lloyd’s of London insurance market.
“Lloyds of London is an insurer of fossil fuel projects at a vast scale across the world and it’s the turning of the wheels of finance driving more and more of these destructive projects.”
#ExtinctionRebellion activist George Barda, from Bristol, on why protesters are here.
Several hundred #ExtinctionRebellion protesters blocking the road outside the Bank of England.
Today’s #ExtinctionRebellion protest is a mass breach of bail conditions, with rebels arrested over the past two weeks breaking their conditions by returning to the City of London.
“I’ve been arrested over 200 times in many different countries, I don’t think one more time is going to make much of a difference.”
Veteran peace campaigner Angie Zelter, 70, who is breaking a bail condition stipulating that she stays out of the City. #ExtinctionRebellion
“We’re from the Bargee Travellers Association, we live on boats that don’t have home moorings. We’re here in solidarity with other travellers and also for the right to protest.”
Olivia, right, 32, from Peterborough, at the #KillTheBill protest.
“I’m here dressed as the grim reaper to mourn what is in effect the death of democracy .... We need to stop this bill going through because it’s a complete erosion of our civil liberties.”
BREAKING: Elizabeth Denham, @ICOnews information commissioner, has confirmed the @Conservatives broke the law by racially profiling 10m voters in 2019.
Appearing at the @CommonsDCMS select committee, Denham insisted that the Conservative party had destroyed the data when her office recommended it, so that enforcement action was unnecessary.
But, she added: "We made the recommendation that they destroy the data because they didn't have the legal basis to collect it ... it was illegal to collect."